Paul Mercurio, transportation planner, city of Syracuse, public works commissioner Pete O'Connor and Andrew Maxwell, director of the Syracuse-Onondoga County Planning Agency, discuss the changes made to West Street. West Street has been redone by the city, winning laurels from the nearby neighborhood.

Welch Allyn of Skaneateles has been a world leader in innovative medical products since developing the world’s first hand-held direct-illuminating ophthalmoscope in 1915. They were also the first company to use fiber optics in medical diagnostic instruments in the 60’s. Welch Allyn specializes in a wide range of medical devices such as otoscopes, blood pressure cuffs, thermometry, and stethoscopes.

Inficon of East Syracuse is a provider of innovative instrumentation, critical sensor technologies, and advanced process control software that enhance productivity and quality in sophisticated industrial vacuum processes. These products are essential for gas leak detection in air conditioning/refrigeration and automotive manufacturing.

The new emergency department at St. Joseph's Hospital will open February 1 , 2012. It's more than three times larger than the hospital's existing emergency department. It occupies part of a 140,000-square-foot three-story building that also houses St. Joe's psychiatric emergency department and data services. The $80 million facility is part of a $220 million expansion that will include a patient tower with private rooms, new operating rooms and other clinical areas.

Ray Banzhof of Interlaken was a manufacturing engineer at TRW in Auburn before he was laid off. He now works at Chateau Lafayette Reneau Winery in Hector, mostly tending to the vines but occasionally working on the production end or helping with other odd jobs around the winery.

In the teeth of the 2009 recession, John Arquette saw an opening to start a real estate brokerage in Central New York. Every Wednesday Arquette leads his agents on a tour of newly-listed houses in Syracuse's eastern suburbs.

Dale R. Conrue began a one-man woodworking operation in The Town of Nelson 28 years ago and now employs 7 carpenters who make one-of a kind wood fixtures for high -end residential markets across the state.